Texas FMC Championship 2025
- Date
- Nov 16, 2025
- City
- Richardson, Texas, United States
- Venue
The University of Texas at Dallas - SCI 2.210
- Address
- 800 W. Campbell Road, Richardson, TX 75080
- Details
SCI 2.210
- Contact
- Organization team
- Organizers
- Matthew Bidwell, Nathan Benson, Ryan Pilat, Southern Cubing LLC, and Tristan Patrick
- WCA Delegates
- Nathan Benson and Tristan Patrick
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
This competition only features FMC. For a more normal competition experience, check out the many other competitions happening in Texas, including Texas Championship 2025.
To learn more about cubing in the Southern USA, including other competitions, visit Southern Cubing.
- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 16
- Registration period
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Online registration opened and closed .
- Registration requirements
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There is a competitor limit of 25 competitors.
Registering for this competition is free.
Registrants on the waiting list may be accepted onto the competitor list until .
On the spot registrations will be accepted for free if there are remaining spots available.
- Highlights
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Ryan Pilat won with a mean of 21.33 moves in the 3x3x3 Fewest Moves event. Fletcher Berry finished second (31.00) and Samarth Sutar finished third (32.00).
| Event | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Fewest Moves | Ryan Pilat | 19 | 21.33 | United States | 19 | 25 | 20 | |||||
| City | Delegate | Location | Address | Competitor Limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Richardson, TX | Nathan Benson, Ryan Pilat & Tristan Patrick | The University of Texas at Dallas - SCI 2.210 (Campus Map) | 800 W Campbell Rd, Richardson, TX 75080 | 25 |
This is the 2025 Texas FMC Championship structured around the fourth annual Texas Championship, part of a series of State Championships supported by CubingUSA. The goal of these competitions is to allow competitors from all over the country to compete for state titles.
While only residents of the Texas are eligible to win the title of Texas FMC Champion, residents of any state or country are welcome and encouraged to compete!
The deadline to officially declare your Texas residency by listing your home state on your CubingUSA account is Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:59 PM CST. Only those who declare residency by the deadline will be eligible for the Texas FMC Champion title. If you achieve a state champion title, you may be asked to verify your residency at the competition.
Fewest Moves Challenge, or FMC, is a quiet event where competitors are given a scramble and have one hour to find the shortest solution. The regulations for the event can be found here, but below are the most important things to remember:
- You can only use up to 3 3x3s
- Your solution must be 80 moves or less. Rotations are included in this 80 move limit, but are not counted in the final solution.
- You can only use outer face move turns to solve the puzzle - no slice moves!
- You may use wide moves to move 2 layers at once (e.g. Rw), but they must be written correctly. Rw' is valid notation, but R'w or r' will result in a DNF.
- You may use rotations (x, y, z), but they must be written correctly - x follows R, y follows U, z follows F. Notation such as (x) or [r] is not valid.
If you are interested, we recommend giving it a try!
This competition is sponsored by TheCubicle! They will be providing gift cards to the podium.
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Time limit
If you reach the time limit during your solve, the judge will stop you and your result will be DNF (see Regulation A1a4).
Format
The format describes how to determine the ranking of competitors based on their results. The list of allowed formats per event is described in Regulation 9b. See Regulation 9f for a description of each format.